The National Weather Service provides a way to roughly calculate distance from a lightning strike. A bolt of lightning heats the air to about 50,000 degrees when it strikes. There’s no safe place ...

A severe thunderstorm that blasted through west Texas on Tuesday was so powerful that it caused dozens of freight train cars to derail, according to officials. The storms moved through northeastern ...

It’s a hot night, and it appears lightning is going wild in the dark sky -- but there’s no thunder. What’s going on? According to the National Weather Service, the term “heat lightning” is commonly ...

Pine Mountain, Ga. (WRBL)-Roll clouds and shelf clouds are similar but in this case the cloud structure rolling across Pine Mountain, Georgia was not attached to the thunderstorm, which makes this a ...

A line of severe thunderstorms that roared across Kansas early Sunday morning reportedly brought winds so powerful they caused two trains with more than 100 cars to derail. The National Weather ...

Lightning, thunder, hail and sleet all visited the Rochester area when a line of storms moved through the area on April 2. Some of the flashes of lightning and house-rattling rumbles prompted the ...